paperview VS linux-wallpaperengine

https://github.com/glouw/paperview you might want to try paperview.

Is there any way to get transparent st terminals without using a composite manager like the alpha patch requires? I've found a tool to set gifs as backgrounds (https://github.com/glouw/paperview) but it can't run while a composite manager is running as they both try to write to the root X11 window and so when I use it I can't see the animated background through st which defeats the point.

No, wallpaper engine doesn't work on linux and as far as i know they don't have plans for a linux version. As for the alternative, there is this https://github.com/glouw/paperview but i haven't used it so i don't know how good it works.

There is also paperview (although not in the void repo) that uses BMP files from a folder to display an animated background. (Converting a video to BMP images can be done with ffmpeg.)

try to install it form here https://github.com/glouw/paperview

You can try paperview

If you use the KDE desktop environment you can use the following repo: wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin There is a generic repo but for me it never worked, but I'll leave it here anyways: linux-wallpaperengine

And before people start saying I can use things like feh or xwinwrap to set the desktop, that won't work as my use case is to use this plugin to run wallpaper engine in kde. There are alternatives like this but they don't render all the effects so its not as pretty.

Pop os use Gnome so it would not work. There is this work in progress project working on this problem. https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine

Im attempting to use https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine and in order for it run as a desktop wallpaper I have to stop anything else from drawing the wallpaper. Ive done some googling around and am unable to find anything regarding this, so I figured what better place than here to ask.

Wallpaper Engine doesn't work on Linux. but if you like to Tinker, there is this project https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine which aims to provide a compatible version. But if you don't really know how to Tinker with Linux, you might need help or might not want to try it.

There is a clone in development: https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine

There might be a back-end way to make it work, but I'm not sure. For instance, this program is "an attempt to make wallpaper engine wallpapers compatible with Linux"